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Diplomat faces charges on visa scam revelations

A DIPLOMAT who exposed visa scams allowing thousands of illegal east European immigrants into Britain is facing the prospect of charges.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) plans to charge James Cameron, the former British consul in Romania, with “facilitating immigration fraud”, a leaked government memo has shown.

He has previously denied Foreign Office claims that he gave visas in return for sex and other favours.

The move has outraged Cameron, 55, who last year exposed lax or non-existent checks on would-be migrants. One case involved a one-legged roofer given a business visa by the Home Office.

Cameron tipped off David Davis, the shadow home secretary, who said Cameron should have been thanked for speaking out. Instead, the whistleblower, who headed the Bucharest embassy’s visa processing unit, was recalled.

Quinton Quayle, the British ambassador in Bucharest, last year called in Scotland Yard’s fraud squad to investigate Cameron. The call was prompted